[Dxspider-support] User database/info seems to vanish

Dirk Koopman djk at tobit.co.uk
Fri Nov 23 20:39:40 CET 2018


Have you tried deleting your users.v3 and then regenerating it from 
user_asc?

Dirk

On 23/11/2018 19:30, Michael Carper, Ph.D. wrote:
> Well, actually, after adding space... I still find that this comes up 
> every time I connect (even after filling it out):
>
> Please enter your name, set/name <your name>
> Please enter your QTH, set/qth <your qth>
> Please enter your location with set/location or set/qra
> Please enter your Home Node, set/homenode <your home DX Cluster>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 11:03 PM Michael Carper, Ph.D. 
> <mike at wa9pie.net <mailto:mike at wa9pie.net>> wrote:
>
>     I'll look into that, Dirk.  But since doubling the disk space, the
>     original problem I reported has vanished.
>
>     Mike, WA9PIE
>
>     On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 6:55 PM Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk
>     <mailto:djk at tobit.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>         I'm struggling to understand why (one presumes) DXSpider is
>         consuming so much disk space.
>
>         On GB7DJK I have 20 years of data
>
>         spots 3.4G
>         logs 5.5G
>         debug 1.3G
>
>         debug is only so big because I have several users and node
>         links, each day is 120-150MB and there will be up to 11 files.
>
>         Is there any evidence in the debug files of restarts? (grep
>         orft debug/*)
>
>         This is what a "normal" restart or stoppage from any signal
>         except KILL should look like:
>
>         If you find that string in one of your debug files, what
>         happens before that? Specifically before the actual start
>         string - something like:
>
>         1542243714^DXSpider V1.57, build 135 (git: c60ec0c[r]) started
>         1542243714^Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
>
>         "orft we jolly well go" is the end of initialisation and "bye
>         bye everyone - bye bye" indicates the end of a controlled
>         shutdown (either by command or a TERM or other catchable
>         signal). [ed: (cough) older people in the UK may recognise
>         these as catch phrases from the TV and radio]
>
>         They are there as erm.. "unusual" strings that one can grep for.
>
>         73 Dirk G1TLH
>
>         On 23/11/2018 00:14, Michael Carper, Ph.D. wrote:
>>         I just doubled the disk space.  It's now got (55% free):
>>
>>         Filesystem      Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>         /dev/sda1        40G  17G   21G  45% /
>>         tmpfs           1.8G    0  1.8G   0% /dev/shm
>>
>>         Mike, WA9PIE
>>
>>         On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 2:57 PM Michael Carper, Ph.D.
>>         <mike at wa9pie.net <mailto:mike at wa9pie.net>> wrote:
>>
>>             Dirk,
>>
>>             The specs on this machine are as follows:
>>
>>             Google Cloud Platform
>>             Machine type; n1-standard-1 (1 vCPU, 3.75 GB memory)
>>             ********
>>             Disk Usage (GB)
>>             Filesystem   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>             /dev/sda1     20G   18G  1.5G  93% /
>>             tmpfs    1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /dev/shm
>>             ********
>>             Memory Usage (MB)
>>              total       used       free  shared    buffers     cached
>>             Mem: 3707       3587        120          0       159     
>>              3045
>>             -/+ buffers/cache:        382       3324
>>             Swap:     0          0          0
>>             ********
>>
>>             ...maybe it's low on disk space?
>>
>>             Mike, WA9PIE
>>
>>             On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 6:38 AM Dirk Koopman via
>>             Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk
>>             <mailto:dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>                 What machine is this running on and what are you
>>                 using for disk space?
>>
>>                 Dirk
>>
>>                 On 15/11/2018 07:36, Michael Carper, Ph.D. via
>>                 Dxspider-support wrote:
>>>                 Greetings all.
>>>
>>>                 Recently, it seems my node (WA9PIE-2) has lost its
>>>                 user database.  The node has probably restarted
>>>                 without cause.
>>>
>>>                 I say the node has lots its user database because my
>>>                 own login is greeted with the following:
>>>
>>>                 Hello WA9PIE, this is WA9PIE-2 in Prosper, TX
>>>                 running DXSpider V1.55 build 0.181
>>>                 ===
>>>                 Questions about the WA9PIE-2 Global DX Spotting Network:
>>>                 email: mike at wa9pie.net <mailto:mike at wa9pie.net>
>>>                 ===
>>>                 Cluster: 396 nodes, 344 local / 3207 total users 
>>>                 Max users 6269  Uptime 3 22:26
>>>                 Please enter your name, set/name <your name>
>>>                 Please enter your QTH, set/qth <your qth>
>>>                 Please enter your location with set/location or set/qra
>>>                 Please enter your Home Node, set/homenode <your home
>>>                 DX Cluster>
>>>                 WA9PIE de WA9PIE-2 15-Nov-2018 0727Z dxspider >
>>>
>>>                 I've logged into my own node many times and have set
>>>                 all these values. Why would it lose them?  Why would
>>>                 it restart?
>>>
>>>                 Has anyone else seen this happen? Does anyone know
>>>                 what I can do to avoid it and get the node back to
>>>                 "normal?"
>>>
>>>                 Mike, WA9PIE
>>>
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